Andrew Marr launches personal attack on ‘angry’ Jeremy Paxman

Andrew Marr has attacked Jeremy Paxman as a “genuinely tortured, angry individual” and said that his aggressive interviews last week were “not a good replacement” for a head-to-head debate between Ed Miliband and David Cameron.

In a talk at the London School of Economics, the BBC presenter and host of The Andrew Marr Show said that viewers would have been “surprised” by Mr Miliband’s performance in a one-on-one situation with the prime minister, who had won “a major victory” by dodging a head-to-head debate with the Labour leader.

Referring to last Thursday’s show on Sky News and Channel 4, in which both leaders faced questions from the audience and a grilling from Paxman, Marr told the Polis Journalism Conference: “Replacing [a head-to-head debate] with a…